My Fair Brady: "Tie the Knot, Tie the Tubes"

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Review: Snipping Peter Brady.

By Colin Moriarty

There always seems to be a problem between Adrianne Curry and her beau Christopher Knight. Things are no different in the second episode of My Fair Brady's sophomore season. Oddly enough (or maybe not so much) are the contrasting themes of this episode (entitled "Tie the Knot, Tie the Tube") that little else really needs to be said about the couple's reaction to the events that unfold.On the one hand, we have the beautiful Adrianne Curry with her mother and grandmother shopping for the dress she'll wear on her big day with America's Favorite Middle Child, Peter Brady (sorry, Eve Plumb). On the other hand, we have the aforementioned "Peter Brady" (Christopher Knight) thinking about getting a vasectomy. This of course conflicts with Adrianne's want to start a family with Mr. Knight, but in this episode, anyway, things start out with a peaceful beginning to the day. Sort of.At first, Adrianne and Chris sit in bed looking at some very clever wedding-specific clothing (such as lingerie with their names on it, or the shirt that Adrianne wears which says "Wife #3"). Suddenly, Adrianne gets the desire to cook Chris breakfast in bed and gets to work. The humor in this scene doesn't necessarily come from the complete destruction of the beloved "petit dejeuner" as much as it stems from Chris foreseeing the disaster it would become. He even helps her clean up dropped food and broken glass in a good-spirited manner, though he does seem tired of Adrianne constantly breaking his glasses and plates.From there we find Chris meeting none other than Barry Williams for lunch. Barry Williams, of course, was Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch, Peter's older brother on the series, and someone Chris comments was someone he looked at as a real older brother since he was ten years old. Naturally, therefore, as the two sit down for a nice lunch outside in the beautiful southern California weather, Christopher isn't afraid to get right to the point. He discusses with Barry Adrianne's want to have a family with him while he would prefer to have a vasectomy and be on the safe side (also known as the side who doesn't want a family). Of course, Williams doesn't have much to say, though we are talking about an actor who once sang about clowns never laughing before and managed to keep a straight face. A devious man, that Barry Williams.

Adrianne Curry

While Chris is enjoying his day out with his adopted older brother, Adrianne finds herself out with her grandmother and mother (visiting her in Los Angeles from Illinois) shopping for her wedding dress. Surprisingly enough to just about everyone (even Christopher), Adrianne opts to buy a much cheaper dress than the ones she could have bought. Granted, she "settled" for a $3,000 dress, but she could have spent $7,000, or as she told her fiancé, "$20,000!" But no, she bought the $3,000 dress. Isn't she thrifty?And finally, the culmination of the episode's events - Christopher brings up the vasectomy idea to Adrianne. Adrianne is instantly very offended and upset and storms into the bathroom commenting on how she can't believe he did this on television. Surely she doesn't understand that through her anguish comes our viewing pleasure. The couple end up going to the doctor together and straightening things out, and things actually work out in favor of Adrianne since Christopher's preconceived notion that the vasectomy can be reversed is squashed by the doctor upon their consultation (one that Adrianne didn't agree with). "Chris doesn't give me credit for intelligence," Adrianne commented after the consultation, also noting that she'd have to introduce Christopher as "half a man" if he were to go through with the surgery.Things end on a sour note, however, when Christopher and Adrianne continue to fight as Adrianne cries to her mother and grandmother that she is unsure if Christopher wants to marry her. And with that, we are left to await next week's show, in all of its schizophrenic glory.